Uzbekistan: Swiss Prosecutor Visit Reveals a Defiant Karimova

Gulnara Karimova speaking at public event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 2013. (Photo: EurasiaNet)

One veil of mystery has been lifted from the saga surrounding the daughter of Uzbekistan’s late president with the news that she was recently questioned by Swiss prosecutors in Tashkent.

The Wall Street Journal and Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported over the weekend that Gulnara Karimova met with the prosecutors in December at the location in which she is held under house arrest. The reports definitively squashed rumors that began in November claiming Karimova had died as a result of poisoning.